PMID: 1195357Jun 1, 1975Paper

Long arm deletion of chromosome no. 6 in a mentally retarded boy with multiple physical malformations

Journal of Mental Deficiency Research
J Milosević, P Kalicanin

Abstract

In a severe mentally retarded boy with multiple physical malformations cytogenetic analysis by the method of heat Giemsa staining confirmed the long arm deletion of chromosome No. 6--46, XY, del(6) (q2). Cytogenetic finding in parents were normal.

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